What a desperate 40 minutes!
On September 14, a woman shared an experience of vacationing in the Maldives online.
But it's not so much a "vacation" as a "narrow escape" experience.
The woman and her friend had traveled to the Maldives in late August.
This woman has been holding a diver's certificate for 9 years and has very rich diving experience.
Originally, she wanted to bring her friends to experience the fun of diving, so she took part in the "Boat Diving Activity" held by the hotel on September 1st.
Because her friend didn’t have any dive experience, she a “Tourist Experience Project” to her friend.
On the trip that day, in addition to the three staff members of the hotel, there was a "teaching assistant" on board who assisted friends in diving.
After they reached the diving area, they would go underwater for diving, but I didn't think that the woman discovered that the breathing regulator in the diving equipment was bad!
But as if the side "assistant" was not professional, did not replace the equipment, only threw a spare secondary head to the girl's friend, and also directly threw the friend down the water.
Her friend was diving over 5 meters with the help of an assistant, while she was diving under 10 meters on her own.
The woman said in the video that she could see their activities when she was underwater, ensuring that she was within the coach's field of vision.
But what was unlikely was that the accident happened again just when they returned, when they stopped under the water 5 meters for 3 minutes.
The trainer did not open in advance, in accordance with the rules in the dive practice, the "shapes" used to guide the submarine to catch people.
Not only that, the woman also said she discovered that there were ocean currents underwater during the diving, but because of the model of the project not asked in advance.
So she didn’t know if the submarine was waiting, or if it was going far in advance to wait for the tourists, so she could only wait for an assistant to arrange how they should return to the submarine.
But I didn't think that after several people were completely out of the water, the "assistant" was just swinging with hand-power, as if he wanted to use this to attract the attention of the crew of the submarine.。
But the distance from the boat was not close, so even if the assistant wavered the hand, it could not be seen at all.
This assistant finally realized the problem, but finally opened the shovel, but did not think that this shovel was leaky, and could not float at all.
At this time, the woman also found that they were drifting farther and farther with the current, and they were getting farther and farther away from the diving boat.
At that time, even if she had several years of diving experience, she could not resist to start panicking, and she proposed to the coach that she could tie the straw on the selfie stick she carried.
I didn't think that this was rejected by the assistant, while saying that it wasn't necessary to give Ivy the air, trying to make Ivy float again on the sea.
At that time, the waves were getting bigger and bigger, and they kept slapping her face. While she had to control herself not to be "blown away", she had to pay attention to her friends' situation, and her physical strength gradually declined.
At the same time, she also said that the assistant at the time was not only to give the elephant a breath, but also to drag friends so that friends don't float away.
Finally, after the condition of the three is consumed to no longer consume, the assistant agreed with the woman's suggestion, the assistant will tie the woman's selfie stick, and crazy shake on the sea to try to seek help.
At that time, they had drifted so far that they couldn't see the diving boat at all, not even a small island.
After waiting for a long time, neither the diving boat nor the rescue boat appeared, and the woman realized that the hotel boat had simply forgotten them.
Although a fishing boat passed by during their plea for help, they didn't see their plea for help and ran away.
After 40 minutes of floating, another fishing boat finally saw their rescue signal and dragged them onto the boat.
The woman also said that after they were rescued, the speed of the fishing boat couldn't keep up with the speed of the diving boat, so the little brother on the fishing boat could only keep chasing the fishing boat.
But I couldn’t imagine the storm after five minutes, and I couldn’t imagine the consequences if the fishing boat didn’t find them.
The assistant was also very excited at the time, complaining that his colleagues were very unprofessional, as if he was also a “victim.”
The girl and friends did not go on the next trip after returning to the submarine, but returned directly to the hotel to the hotel manager for a statement, and questioned the professionality of the hotel's diving.
But what I didn't think was that the coach who was just complaining changed his mouth, persuading the women not to pursue anymore, saying "it is very normal for tourists to be forgotten by the boat", and also said that it wasn't no greater accident?
The hotel manager also said that it was not an "accident" because there was a coach with him during the process. He also said that they should go back to their rooms to rest first, and a result would be discussed with them before 7 pm.
Just after they returned to the room, the coach sent them a message saying he couldn’t lose his job because of the matter, and asked them if they could pay.
At about six o’clock when they came down to the front floor, the coach kept staring at them until they bought their tickets and left.
In the end, the hotel's solution only saved the woman $15, but the friend paid all the expenses.
But this place is not familiar to them, so they didn't choose to call the police for fear that they wouldn't be able to go home in the end.
After returning home, the woman dared to share the experience on the network, and then began to formally defend her rights.
She has filed a complaint with the Maldives Civil Aviation Department, but has not received any results at the moment.
But the matter still has a small response on the Internet, and many netizens are calling for the two of the hotel.
This hotel was also removed from the platform under the pressure of public opinion, but I didn't expect them to change their names and put them on the shelves again within two days.
The renamed hotel did not acknowledge the incident at all, so women could only post videos on the internet several times, allowing more people to evacuate the hotel to protect their personal safety.
The woman also said in the follow-up that she would continue to keep in touch with various departments until the hotel apologized and rectified.
At the same time, it is hoped that the local relevant departments and hotels, all pay attention to this, the Maldives is after all a tourist sacred place, can not because they drop their reputation to the valley.
Source of information:
Elephant News — Woman to Maldives diving forgotten at the hotel says she swam at sea for 45 minutes.
Customer account — Maldives diving, hotel forgot us at sea for 45 minutes!
Yangzi Evening News-A 9-year diving veteran and his friends were in distress in the Maldives: equipment failure + no one responded, drifting at sea for 40 minutes to pick up
-Life, the hotel refuses to pay